How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups
Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.
MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting
The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category. The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard”—is part of the publication’s Power Hungry package on AI’s energy burden. AI is often described…
Everything Samsung revealed at its Galaxy Unpacked event
Samsung’s new privacy screen feature on Galaxy S26 Ultra was the most notable feature of the event.
Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content
Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.
This company claims a battery breakthrough. Now they need to prove it.
When a company claims to have created what’s essentially the holy grail of batteries, there are bound to be some questions. Interest has been swirling since Donut Lab, a Finnish company, announced last month that it had a new solid-state battery technology, one that was ready for large-scale production. The company said its batteries can…
America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.
To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the planet at the very moment they were forged. For decades, NASA had been on a time capsule hunt like none other—one across Mars. Its rovers have journeyed around a…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward. off more talk of the death of its business to AI.
Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends
“The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company’s earnings.
Roundtables: Why 2026 Is the Year for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is finally making its way into cars—and energy storage arrays on the grid. Sodium-ion batteries are one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026 list, and this subscriber-only discussion explains why. Watch a…